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Tells the story of the European partition and conquest of Africa from about 1880 to 1935 from an African point of view. It gives particular weight to African initiatives and resistance, then examines colonial economies, social and religious change under colonial rule, and the early growth of African nationalism.
Véronique Hélénon’s study of French Caribbean people who served in France’s colonial administration in Africa from 1880 to 1939, drawing on official records, newspapers and interviews.
Ruth Ginio studies the years 1940 to 1943, when the Vichy regime tried to impose its “National Revolution” in French West Africa, and how different groups of Africans responded.
Essays edited by Palumbo (2003) on how Africa shaped Italy’s sense of itself, and on the history and culture of Italian colonialism, drawing on the growth of postcolonial studies.
Steven Rubert examines the work, living conditions and social relations of African men, women and children on European-owned tobacco farms in colonial Zimbabwe from 1890 to 1945.
Timothy Stapleton’s military history of South Africa, from European settlement at the Cape in the 1650s to the end of apartheid, with most attention on the last two hundred years.
Roy Irons (2013) recounts Britain’s campaigns in Somaliland from 1899 to 1921 against the leader the British called the “Mad Mullah”, and Winston Churchill’s part in them. Reviewers dispute how much influence the author gives Churchill.
Daniel E. Harmon’s illustrated history of Central and East Africa since 1880, from colonial rule to civil war, in the series Exploration of Africa: The Emerging Nations, with an introduction by Richard Leakey.
Frederick Cooper’s prize-winning history of 1945 to 1960, when people in France’s African colonies held French citizenship and their leaders explored federation as an alternative to both empire and the nation-state.
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